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Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1st. 1st printing; cover page is stained and soiled and some wear at fold; inside is generally bright and vg; pp.361-372 pages; includes: Chadbourne, Horace (The Stroke Oar--Rowing at Eastern College); C.A. Stephens (When be Murch Ran Away to Sea); William R. Castle Kr (American empire0=--Hawaii); Katherine M. Harbaugh (serial, Pt 3); Franklikn Welles Calkins (A Brule Captive; Nancy Byrd Turner & Walter Piston (4th of July Song, On the Fourth); Grace Goodale (poem); Etc. B/W Illus: Photos;george Avison, Dudley G. Summers, Clarence Rowe, Etc (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st. stapled wraps; pp.565-580; items by/about: Jonathan Brooks (Jimmy Come Jim), G.R. O'Reilly (The Jaguars of Tamana). David Lorraine & Arthur Floyd Henderson (Jack Farrington's Beanstalk, Pt. VI), J.W. Marshall (The Noise in the Office), John Winthrop Hammond (The Wonder Story of Steinmetz, Pt V), Occultist in Tibet, Frances Crosby Hamlet (poem), Winifred L. Bryning (The Bush and the Volcano), Etc. B/W Illus: Photos;george Avison, Dudley G. Summers, Clarence Rowe, Etc (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Faded black cloth boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine, Creases on the first few pages. No jacket, a little wear at the top of the spine.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. British edition, second printing, November 1964 (first printing was March 1963). With original unclipped jacket (42s). The New Naturalist number forty-five. Index. Profusely illustrated. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a few small marks/spots of foxing, a few tears (largest to back), a little patchy browning, small patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), the odd crease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, a little pushing/bumping to corners, minor patchy browning/odd small mark/spot of foxing to reverse (white side), a little patchy creasing/rubbing/browning/odd spots of foxing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with minor pushing/bumping to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New Naturalist #45. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are marked and generally grubby. Some slight bumping to corners. Spine is intact albeit with some bumping to the ends. Foxing to the page edges. Textblock is generally clean and well held. Some foxing to endpages although not significantly affecting the textblock. 366 pp. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Pictoral finished paper dust jacket with white lettering to spine and front. Dj has one small loss to spine area. Spine area is age darkened. Rather grubby. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 741g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 032696:7g) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 741 G. Book.…

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Periodical bound into hardcover, 9 1/2 by 7 inches, 884 pages, many illustrations. Bound in green cloth with an embossed floral, leafy design. Gilt lettering on spine. The binding is unfaded and has only slight wear on the corners. Bright gilt lettering on the spine. Hinges tight. Slight stain to pages 658-660, otherwise the pages are clean. Interesting contents. Articles include: Chinese immigration by Burlingame, New York aquarium by Ward, April by Burroughs, Trip to Black Hill by Richardson, Hartford Conn. by Clark, Chincoteague by Pyle, Constantinople by Warner, Sporting Dogs by Tileston, Lafayette college by Mitchell, Mere Giraud's Daughter and That Lass o Lowrie's chapters IX-XXXIV by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Moscow by Eugene Schuyler, Princeton College by S. D. Alexander, Trout Fishing in Rangegley Lakes by Seymour, Turkistan, Norway, Trip up Nile, College expenses, a poem by Bret Harte. And more. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Heavier book, fine green cloth, very bright gilt lettering and design on spine, spine lightly askew, 366 lightly browned pages, photographs, maps and illustrations throughout. DJ price-clipped, heavy paper, colorful illustration of aerial view of land and water on front and spine, list of nature books on back, back is lightly browned and very slightly soiled. DJ is badly torn at most edges. Fair DJ/Very Good book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Fine +. No Jacket. First Edition. Pages 50 and 51, a double spread, in this 155 page volume, feature a 1930 Morris Minor, a 1929 Singer Junior, a 1928 M.G. Sports Saloon, a 1926 Alvis, a 1925 Standard Open Tourer, and a 1925 Lea-Francis. Read more about : Seddon, Purchase Tax, Perkins oil, refuse collectors, Leyland Cub with three-horse box, Daimlers, Paris to Bordeaux race, and Coventry Engineering Society. Lest you think the volume only covers cars; there are trucks, buses, racers, mobile pumps, boats, and airplanes. This latter produced under the Shadow Factory Scheme. (Think: WWII) The many photogrfaphs are first class b/w's. Cond : Boards are brown leather with gilt lettering. Pictorial end-papers. No dust jacket. Clean and bright. Tight in binding. Heavy wear at most edges - esp upper spine where a piece is missing. No names nor marks. Excellent automotive reference. Quote (p. 85) : " It appears, however, that the first British machine to run on the roads of this country was built by Richard Trevithick, Junr., and Andrew Vivian in 1801, and in 1803 a vehicle built by them operated in the London area for at least six months. Goldsworthy Gurney produced such a ._._._. . " Size: Quarto. B/W Photographs (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. New Naturalist no. 45. 1st edition 1963. Slight foxing/ discolouration to inner boards, end-papers and page edges. Slight rubbing to edges of un-clipped dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Dustjacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Cloth bright and clean with slightly spotted text block. A fine, tight, clean copy in fine, clean dustwrapper which has no evidence of sunning or fading to the spine. Very scarce in this condition. We usually have first editions of all the New Naturalist Series in stock, please contact us for more details.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Very slight rubbing to wrapper, no creasing fading or tears. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated. Bright and clean internally with very little wear. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK. This will be calculated before order is processed so that charges are clear.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. A very good first edition, Pp. 366, b/w photographs, b/w diagrams & maps. Dust jacket very good neat repair to a closed tear at the top of the spine, bright and fresh, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Green buckram boards fine with bright gilt. Contents clean and tight, edges lightly spotted, no inscriptions. A bright copy. [Collecting the New Naturalists NN45A] Size: 8vo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes, octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.24; 173-332, pp.20; 333-494; 21-24. Publisher's card wraps, British issues. Some light wear and marks to covers. Fine. Containing two parts of George du Maurier's new story The Martian.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A very good first edition, Pp. 366, b/w photographs, b/w diagrams & maps. Dust jacket very good to near fine, bright and fresh, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Green buckram boards fine with bright gilt. Contents clean and tight, edges lightly spotted, no inscriptions. A bright copy. [Collecting the New Naturalists NN45A] Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition a clean unmarked copy in dust wrapper, some minor handling to the wrapper and small tear to upper panel, but near fine overall, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. No signatures. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers. Moderate spots of foxing to page edges. Some staining to rear endpaper. Some foxing to dust wrapper. A small 3/8" tear with an old adhesive tape stain at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; xvii, [1], 366 pages + plates. Green cloth boards. "For the first time all known or reputed commons in England are listed county by county with brief details of acreage, nature and present state. Similarly for the first time there is a list of all village greens." - from dust wrapper blurb. A volume in the celebrated New Naturalist Library. "[. . .] we have now come to look forward to new volumes in this series - well written, beautifully produced, and awakening interest in some fresh feature of Britain's countryside" - quoted from a Guardian review of the series.; Series title: New Naturalist No. 45; 8vo.…

first edition [New Naturalist series #45] 366pp ills.[b/w] VERY GOOD+ (green cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.,sl.internal foxing).

, each volume of approximately 552 pages has 23 plates and frontispiece on tinted paper, as well as numerous woodcuts in text First Edition , all volumes in similar condition head and tail of spine and corners scuffed, boards and edges rubbed, gutters showing wear, inscriptions to endpapers, volume 2 lacks 5 plates vols. 3 and 4 have 3 & 8 darkened plates, a few loose pages, overall solid useful copies in good condition despite wear , half green calf with marbled paper to sides, gilt bands and title to spine Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback ISBN.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 104. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 104.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Leigh, Conrad; Inns, Kenneth; Sutcliffe, Norman; Gillett, F.; Forestier, A.; Peddie, Tom; De Walton, John; Carruthers, G.P.; Board, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Cowes, Dudley S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Dewar, W. (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. York, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Tennant, Dudley; Cleaver, Reginald; Inns, Kenneth; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian; Gale, W.G.; Soper, G.; Sindall, A.W. (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. American Edition. Pages 254-336 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: Biggest Hold-up on Record - robbery of the U.S. Mail at Toledo, Ohio in February, 1921; Salvaging a God - a tale of South Sea natives and one of their gods; Pekin (Peking / Beijing) to London, Mostly by Car- Fantastic photo-illustrated article on Capt. D.M. McCallum's 15,000 mile adventure, including photos of Angkor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada (part 3 of 3) - H.P. Musson's homestead turns out to be all rocks and precipices!; The People of Pierre Le Loupe - George E. Stuart-Reid volunteers with the North-West Mounted to finally capture a half-breed murderer after a long and arduous hunt; A Day in the Life of a South African Farmer; Over Niagara Falls in a Rubber Ball! - Amazing photo-illustrated article on Jean Albert Lussier and his daring exploit; How I Won My Horse - Margaret S. Coffman and her challenging 300-mile Texas ride; The Big Leopard - John de Bruin recounts how he was attacked - with photo; When Raj Mungal Saw Red - a valuable elephant goes rogue in Sabalpur, India; The Snake Worshippers - a story from Calcutta about the Ooriyas, natives of the province of Orissa on the east coast of India; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part 2 of 2 of this photo-illustrated account of Emil Trinkler and his trip to this strange land of desolate mountains and fertile valleys, with photos of the huge cliff carvings at Bamian; Following the Frontier Trail - Newspaperwoman Edith Ammons Kohl recounts her experiences in the vast range country of Wyoming; My Strangest Experience - a story of the occult by a trooper in the B.S.A. police. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Norman Sutcliffe; T.H. Peddie; W.J. Gale; Dudley Tennant; John De Walton; E.J. Kealey; S. Tresilian; Cyril Holloway; S.H. Vedder; Francis E. Hiley; G.W. Goss; Nicolson (cover) (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustratore).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Whitaker, W.G.; Bates, Leo; Soper, G.; Gillett, F.; Robinson, T.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Lane, Harry; Crombie, Chas; Tennant, Dudley (illustratore).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Wood, Stanley L.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, F.E.; Sherie, E.F.; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.E.; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Tennant, Dudley; Prater, E. (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Robinson, T.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Reynolds, Warwick; Carruthers, G.P.; Tennant, Dudley; Holmes, Fred; Brock, H.M.; Soper, Geo.; Brock, H.M. (illustratore).…